I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.
Jill Bolte TaylorMy left brain is doing the best job it can with the information it has to work with. I need to remember, however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.
Jill Bolte TaylorIt takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.
Jill Bolte TaylorThe left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it has a time component and it's all about details. The right hemisphere is more about the right now-right here experience where everything is an enormous collage of all the sensory systems flooding into our brains.
Jill Bolte Taylor